One member of NWA is deceased, the high-pitched Easy-E, said to have died of AIDS. However, say, compared to Queen’s Freddie Mercury, Easy-E did not suffer from a long illness expected from HIV; he died abruptly. Freddie Mercury was diagnosed with HIV and given AZT and then died of ‘AIDS’. Easy-E was diagnosed with AIDS just upon hospital admission. Hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony also dispute Easy-E’s death which would see them painted as conspiratorial by AIDS mainstreamers.

There’s also no report of any of Easy-E’s children or partners having acquired HIV or dying of AIDS (see last link), something the media would’ve no doubt jumped on.

It comes to this: while deaths from possible recreational overindulgences are common in the music industry, at that time particularly (Easy-E died a few years after Mercury), a gay man and a black man aren’t allowed to die without suspicion of HIV infection.